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<body> <div align="left"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" width="800" cellpadding="0" height="100%"> <tr> <td width="100" rowspan="3" background="../stylepix/square.gif" valign="top">  </td> <td width="4" rowspan="3"></td> <td width="592" height="1%" valign="top">  </td> <td width="4" rowspan="3"></td> <td width="100" rowspan="3" background="../stylepix/squareright.gif" valign="top">  </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="592" valign="top" height="99%">    <p>Connie Hayward (Asa Maynor) has come to the Himalaya to search for her missing brother with her slightly cowardly boyfriend Trevor (Lloyd Nelson). In Steve Cameron (Tom Maruzzi) they soon find a guide to take them to the mountains, and Connie soon falls in love with him, too - much to the dismay of Trevor, understandably.<p>Eventually, Connie's party catches up with the expedition of Professor Erickson (George Wells Lewis), another expedition trying to catch up with Connie's brother, and the professor tells them the true nature of Connie's brother's expedition: to fing the abominable snowman, the Yeti. Nobody knows if the Yeti actually exists of course, or whether to actually believe in such a being, but their camp is already under observation by the snowman - but what's worse, Erickson's guide Varga (George Skaff) is actually a Yeti himself, albeit a shaved one, so he passes as human. Eventually, Varga tries to lure everybody in a trap, to kill all the males and use Connie for breeding purposes, and the professor and Trevor are soon killed, too, but Steve is he-man enough to not only kill the Yeti, he also fights and defeats Varga, who then dies in a climbing accident while coming after Steve and Connie.<p> <p>Jerry Warren's directorial debut, and compared to many of his later films, this is actually a pretty good movie, despite the limited budget, the locations are pretty convincing, much outdoor and climbing sequences add some authencity to the story, and the whole thing actually comes off as a reasonably well-paced adventure movie. That said, the film is of course not without its flaws: Safe from George Skaff, the cast is hardly even mediocre, the Yeti costume is best described as cheap and ridiculous, and at least some of the action scenes could have needed more care - but compared to other low budget flicks from the 1950's, this still is pretty decent stuff. <p>  </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="592" valign="top" height="1%">  <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> currentyear = "2010"; </SCRIPT> <SCRIPT language="JavaScript" src="../scripts/endcredits.js"></SCRIPT> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> dosworsdonn(); </SCRIPT> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </body>